If you live in an apartment building in the U.S., chances are good it's lacking an elevator—Americans enjoy far fewer elevators per capita than other western nations. This means if you’re renting a place on an upper floor, there’s a solid chance you have to walk up and down stairs all the time. If you’re in decent health that might not be a huge problem—until you go grocery shopping.
Here are five ways to make carrying groceries up stairs a lot easier.
Get a stair climbing cart
If you’ve got a standard grocery cart, you know that hauling it up the stairs isn’t easy. The wheels slip and bang into every step, and you need to put your back into pulling it up as you go. The solution: A stair-climbing trolley like this one. The six-wheel design makes pulling it up stairs a breeze, as it remains balanced during the whole operation. There are a lot of variations and sizes to choose from, so if you have just a flight or two of stairs to tackle a cart like this can make it much easier for one person to haul all their groceries from the street to their kitchen.
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Getting bags of groceries up flights of stairs without hurting yourself or losing your will to live is essentially an engineering problem. And that means one of the oldest machines in the world can definitely help: The pulley. As you can see here, some enterprising women living in a walk-up apartment in New York City rigged up a simple pulley system that allows them to lift their grocery bags up easily, without having to run up and down the stairs several times, via the magic of weight distribution and force redirection (which you totally remember from high school physics class). You can find clamp pulleys like this one that can be attached to a railing, clamped tight, and then removed once the bags have been lifted into place.
Or just use a laundry basket like a sled
Finally, if you don’t want to spend money or put any time into your grocery hauling solution, you could go completely and totally primitive with a rope and a laundry basket (or any other smooth-bottomed basket). Place your grocery bags in the basket and use a carabiner clip to secure them into the basket itself so they don’t fall out. Then attach a rope to your basket (using another clip or just by knotting it through the handle) and haul it up from higher up the stairs. It’s not the most elegant solution, but it’s a lot easier than carrying fifteen bags up those stairs, and if you have some clips and a basket lying around it’s also a zero-cost solution.
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